Hi all,
My name is James and my IRC nick handle is jjlit. I am a system admin
in Australia, recently completed post graduate university qualifications
and am looking for a new hobby, now that ive finished uni. I have been
a long time linux user and fan, and would love to be actively involved
in the system administration of the fedora server infrastructure, no
matter what task. I have a passion for linux and down here in Australia
its hard to be involved in linux as the microsoft juggernaut is very
powerful down here. I realise it will be a while before I am allowed to
participate in active sysadmin tasks, but thats fine, im the same with
my networks. I would also like to get to a stage whereby I can
hopefully train others who are like me, looking for something to devote
their time to. Im also looking for a sponsor to help me get onboard
with the infrastructure team asap, anyone who can help out, much
appreciated in advance.
Regards,
James

When we were adding the fedmsg hooks to pkgs01 and pkgs01.stg, we decided it
would be a nice "extra" to run "git update server-info" on each repo for each
push. This made cloning via http possible.
We ran a script "git check-perms /srv/git/rpms --check=post-update --fix" on
pkgs01 that added this hook for every repo, but I forgot to add it to
"setup_git_package" so that it would be added for every new repo. Now there
are a handful of repos that do not have the hook, while most others do.
Other than the inconsistency, this doesn't matter all too much. It is
annoying, however, due to a cron job that is checking for the new hook,
failing to find it, and bothering sysadmins about it over email.
I'm seeking +1s for a freeze break to make the following two changes:
1) Run "git check-perms /srv/git/rpms --check=post-update --fix" on pkgs01
again to fix the handful of repos that are out of sync.
2) Apply the following patch in puppet which will add the hook for new repos.
diff --git a/modules/gitolite/files/distgit/setup_git_package b/modules/gitolite/files/distgit/setup_git_package
index bd42b95..eeaa16f 100755
--- a/modules/gitolite/files/distgit/setup_git_package
+++ b/modules/gitolite/files/distgit/setup_git_package
@@ -121,6 +121,9 @@ ln -s /usr/share/git-core/post-receive-fedmsg \
ln -s /usr/share/git-core/post-receive-chained \
$GITROOT/$PACKAGE.git/hooks/post-receive
+# This executes "git update-server-info" on each push for clone via http
+ln -s /usr/share/git-core/templates/hooks/post-update.sample \
+ $GITROOT/$PACKAGE.git/hooks/post-update
rm -rf $TMPDIR
echo "Done."

The infrastructure team will be having it's weekly meeting tomorrow,
2012-08-16 at 18:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting on the freenode network.
Suggested topics:
#topic New folks introductions and Apprentice tasks.
If any new folks want to give a quick one line bio or any apprentices
would like to ask general questions, they can do so in this part of the
meeting. Don't be shy!
#topic Applications status / discussion
Check in on status of our applications: pkgdb, fas, bodhi, koji,
community, voting, tagger, packager, dpsearch, etc.
If there's new releases, bugs we need to work around or things to note.
#topic Sysadmin status / discussion
Here we talk about sysadmin related happenings from the previous week,
or things that are upcoming.
#topic Upcoming Tasks/Items
#info 2012-08-14 to 2012-08-28 F18 Alpha Freeze
#info 2012-08-21 hosted03-> hosted01/02 migration (tenative)
#info 2012-08-28 F18 Alpha release.
#info 2012-08-31 end of 2nd quarter
#info 2012-09-01 nag fi-apprentices.
#info 2012-09-08 drop inactive fi-apprentices.
#info 2012-09-10 to 2012-09-24 Skvidal is out
#info 2012-09-18 to 2012-10-02 F18 Beta Freeze
#info 2012-09-27 to 2012-09-28 Smooge at Puppetconf
#info 2012-10-02 F18 Beta release
#topic Open Floor
Submit your agenda items, as tickets in the trac instance and send a
note replying to this thread.
More info here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Meetings#Meetings
Thanks
kevin

For those of you who may be interested, we're finally moving forward
to update the fedora pastebin server. We're planning the new pastebin
to represent fpaste.org and be an instance of sticky-notes
(https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/sticky-notes).
Athmane already has a puppet configuration and this is noted in the
ticket below.
We will also be needing to work with the maintainer of fpaste to
update the configuration there and should have that part done soon as
well.
Any other information is in the ticket.
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1591
Please let us know if there are any concerns.
Cheers,
Clint

The infrastructure team will be having it's weekly meeting tomorrow,
2012-08-09 at 18:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting on the freenode network.
Suggested topics:
#topic New folks introductions and Apprentice tasks.
If any new folks want to give a quick one line bio or any apprentices
would like to ask general questions, they can do so in this part of the
meeting. Don't be shy!
#topic Applications status / discussion
Check in on status of our applications: pkgdb, fas, bodhi, koji,
community, voting, tagger, packager, dpsearch, etc.
If there's new releases, bugs we need to work around or things to note.
#topic Sysadmin status / discussion
Here we talk about sysadmin related happenings from the previous week,
or things that are upcoming.
#topic Security FAD
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Infrastructure_Security_2012
#topic status.fedoraproject.org
General discussion of status.fedoraproject.org
#topic Upcoming Tasks/Items
#info 2012-08-14 to 2012-08-28 F18 Alpha Freeze
#info 2012-08-15 hosted03-> hosted01/02 migration (tenative)
#info 2012-08-28 F18 Alpha release.
#info 2012-08-31 end of 2nd quarter
#info 2012-09-01 nag fi-apprentices.
#info 2012-09-08 drop inactive fi-apprentices.
#info 2012-09-10 to 2012-09-24 Skvidal is out
#info 2012-09-18 to 2012-10-02 F18 Beta Freeze
#info 2012-09-27 to 2012-09-28 Smooge at Puppetconf
#info 2012-10-02 F18 Beta release
#topic Open Floor
Submit your agenda items, as tickets in the trac instance and send a
note replying to this thread.
More info here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Meetings#Meetings
Thanks
kevin

On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:06:24 -0600
Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:45:50 +0300
> Gena Makhomed <gmm(a)csdoc.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > very old and buggy MediaWiki 1.16.5
> > still used at https://fedoraproject.org/ site
> >
> > now version 1.19.1 already available:
> >
> > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
> >
> > Security MediaWiki 1.19.1 security release is now available.
>
> Yeah, we are aware. ;)
>
> We have been working on setting up 1.19 rpms... and they are now
> finally at a point where we can do some testing. Hopefully they will
> go out to our staging area soon and we can get them rolled into
> production before too long.
ok. I have mediawiki 1.19.1 setup in staging now.
Please test:
http://stg.fedoraproject.org/wiki/
The database conversion took about 45minutes or so, but seems to have
gone fine, and we ran into a theme issue, but athmane managed to fix
that right up.
I've tested:
* Login works.
* editing pages works.
* lockdown works because it won't let me edit Legal namespace pages.
* pages load in general and look ok.
* Performance seems ok.
Please do check and make sure everything works as you expect.
If things look good we can try and push this into production before the
next freeze hopefully.
thanks,
kevin

On 08/08/12 14:52, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
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> Mass branching for f18 is complete. please be sure to do a git pull. to
> get the f18 branch. also please be sure to use the latest fedpkg
> dist-rawhide has been removed if your tools are too old you wont be able
> to build for rawhide.
>
> Dennis
How is this wokring this time around.
I see F18 in updates, updates-testing,
but no F18 plain Fedora*.repomd.xml
either under development or releases.
Could not parse metalink
https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-18&arch=x86_64
error was
No repomd file
iirc under f17Branchded it was fedora.repo and updates-testing.repo.
--
Regards,
Frank
"Jack of all, fubars"

Hello all,
Your IRC handle: PatStein
What skills you have to offer and which you would like to learn: Right
now, I don't have much skills in this area. But I want to do system
admin, and network admin work as my career. So I am starting to learn
everything I can, I am getting LPIC +1, Network +, CCNA, and Linux +
within the next few months.
What you would like to work on and quite possibly which outstanding
issues you would like to help resolve: I don't know yet, I am again just
starting out with this.
I would like to add that I am also a Fedora Ambassador.
Thank You for your time,
Patrick Stein